20 Chords Every REAL Guitar Player Needs To Know

There are hundreds of guitar chords out there. However, to play your favorite songs, there are really only twenty or so that you need to have down. In this lesson, we’ll be covering the twenty guitar chords (plus a few extras) every real guitar player needs to know.

Download the full chord chart here:

The chords you’ll learn are:
The C major chord, A major chord, G major chord, E major chord, D major chord, A minor chord, E minor chord, D minor chord, F major chord, F# major chord, F minor chord, F# minor chord, G minor chord, B major chord, Bb major chord, B minor chord, Bb minor chord, C minor chord, C7 chord, A7 chord, E7 chord, D7 chord, G7 chord, F7 chord, F#7 chord, B7 chord, Bb7 chord, F# diminished chord, and the F# augmented chord.

Make sure you download the chord cheat sheet so you can reference it later. If you master all twenty of these chords, you’ll be prepared to learn just about any song out there!

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[jasondorsett]

Open C Major Chord. [00:37]
Open A Major Chord. [00:56]
Open G Major Chord. [01:16]
Open A Minor Chord. [01:47]
F Major Bar Chord. [02:18]
G Minor Bar Chord E Shape. [03:01]
B Major Bar Chord A Shape. [03:33]
Open A7 Chord. [04:56]

[MorrisMusic]

I always play B7 with the same shape as Dm on strings 3, 4, 5.

[wallsmartsme]

I'm 61 years old and I learned a lot from your video. No one's too old to learn the basics.

[Hadesmusica]

Finally... a guitar video where the guy doesn't tell me his entire life story for 95% of the video, really helpful 🙏🏼

[ShaibuSolomon-dm]

i love this video now my child can play guitar well

[iaganfoss]

Ad: Learning guitar? Wait! Don’t hit that skip button!

Me: (hits skip button) Ha. I’m a rebel.

[MorrisMusic]

Dude I never thought to use my middle finger to help with barre chords. Light bulb moment. Thanks

[SomePoetry.]

Me who knows: G, Am, Em, D, C
Also me: acting like a pro

[alec]

Top tip: know the A, Am, A7, E, Em, E7 shapes, understand the CAGED system (the concept of root notes), memorize the notes on the low E and A string and you have yourself 20-30 chords at your disposal.

[nickshepley]

I’ve been playing guitar for 12 years and I found this helpful

[DW-ygxq]

I’m 696 years old weighing 200lbs of pure muscle and learning these 20 must know chords has cured my erectile dysfunction, arthritis and scared my testicular cancer into remission

[synthoelectro]

you mean guitarists, don't know C maj? Oh that's right, that Mel Bay book back in the 90s really helped :D

[valterstrumpiks]

Ive played guitar for 8 years now, why did i watch all of this?
Nice video tho

[morganbroderickk]

I clicked on this video expecting to learn something I didn’t know. But I didn’t learn anything. I see that as a complete win

[JacksonAxe]

20?
lol
Guitar George knows ALL the chords.

[guckertott]

Purely air guitarist here, but this has helped me know how to look as authentic as possible.

[AmyReeve]

I don't think it matters how many Chords a guitarist knows but it's how they take the chords and use them to their advantage. If you know a few simple chords you can still play a lot of songs.

[Hopeful-all]

The 81 scales every guitar player needs to know.

[LazloArcadia]

I'd love to see a reference chart that not only showed fingered placement but also how that same note looks on standard sheet music and in tab notation. Would be a great learning / reference tool